http://blog.raisingwillow.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:41:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, some of you may know that I am studying at Uni. I'm also studying Certificate IV in Mental Health, but that's another story for another day. I started my Social Work degree in March 2008, when Dexie was about 6 months old. I had studied previously and ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/18/pure-awesome/ It's depressing, isn't it? I worked out the other day that after tax and salary sacrifice, I make $15 per hour. I made more in my first job at an abbatoir, packaging meat. On the bright side, it is a great job. I don't have to deal ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/17/15-an-hour/ So, I have a client, who is also a client of a state government agency. He has a case worker from this agency, to whom he has to report every week. Often, I'll take him in to report because it means that I know he's done it. ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/11/its-a-small-world-after-all/ I made two more pairs of undies today, one for Willow and one for me. I thought the white elastic and stitching might lighten my pair, but they really just look like granny undies! I have found another pattern that looks a bit more modern. Willow chose ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/09/bride-of-frankenstein-and-frankenstein-junior/ I have been doing more than just sewing lately - it was a long weekend here in Adelaide, so we went down to see A's mum yesterday. On the way we stopped at a friend's house, who has four children. My two, and A played with them nicely ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/not-just-sewing/ Papie is the word Dexie uses for paper at the moment, very cute, we think. I recently printed off 24 A4 pages to make up a pattern, sticky taped them together and traced it on to thin interfacing. When I was finished with the paper, I turned it ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/papie/ I finally uploaded the photos, so you'll know what I'm talking about - Calenday. Dexie had to be in the photo. This is how we hang it up. The proportions. http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/calenday-photos/ A complained that I hadn't made anything for him. So I made this oven mitt. I traced a pattern off one that he likes, but made it bigger for his manly hands. Notice the strawberry in the background? I'm quite pleased with how the quilting turned ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/oven-mitt/ Yesterday we went to a friend's house for lunch. She is a sister sewing enthusiast and we swapped some patterns. I have some of her precious Ottobre patterns. In one of them I saw a pattern for girls knickers, which interested me, but there was also a pattern ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/frankenstein-undies/ Sorry for the previous melancholy post. I wanted to write about two people who made comments to me recently, comments that meant a lot. One of my clients is going through a property settlement, her lawyer is an amazing woman, someone I admire very much. She told ... http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/03/positives/